Good user editing tools

[jzig]

I'm working on surveying existing mod/user editing tools. Right now I'm taking a look at Neverwinter Nights, and I know I want to steal some stuff from Little Big Planet. Anyone know of particularly good ideas or features from other user editing tool suites? I'm specifically interested in ones that deal with behavior of characters as opposed to

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[boco]

If you're interested in only the behavior of characters, Ragnarok Online lets you script the behavior of your homunculus in Lua, bypassing the need for an intermediary language or editor. And Civ IV uses a combination of XML for data and Python for everything else, both of which are left open for modders to change how they'd like (including AI player behavior).

[piman]

Those are both uninteresting though, since they're not structured tools. If we wanted to let users program raw, we'd just ship source code. :P

[boco]

On the other hand, we're talking about user-created content.

If you want to restrict how the user can change the AI, you should probably make a game of the restriction (Robo Rally, Carnage Heart, Final Fantasy XII), not limit the abilities of mod-makers to create content.